Occupation: Sculptor Birth: November 2, 1939
If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing the sculpt….
But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things….
But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape..
Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work..
If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthe….
Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who ….
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before..
It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculptu….
I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to mak….
Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see..
I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to ….
The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculp….
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chanc….
I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'.
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cap….
But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliag….
Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading..
I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here..
Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not intere….
If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in w….
I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers..